{"id":268,"date":"2008-10-05T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T05:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-10-15T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:09:27","slug":"how-i-fell-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"How I fell in love &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No &#8230; don&#8217;t come in here expecting me to write hair-raising stories about how I met my wife and stuffs like that. It&#8217;s not about her. It&#8217;s about the other woman in my life &#8230; Diana. Yeah, the &#8216;original&#8217; old Diana camera, and not the Diana+ series that Lomography later introduced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently took that old Diana out for a ride and after a couple of years &#8230; I still feel the same way I did when I first used it. The feel and results from an old Diana is many times better than the Diana+ cameras. At least to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/diana-n-xp2-oct-08\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Picked up my first Diana from a sales in the now defunct Yahoo! auction. I&#8217;m sure this lady seller ripped me off (yeah &#8230; I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll read this too &#8230; hehehe &#8230; yeah, Cin &#8230; you owe me big time beer!) &#8230; nah, I guess the price was reasonable. I didn&#8217;t get to try that camera until a trip to Shanghai and that was the first time I was using a camera that I didn&#8217;t even know if it will work! Thank God the two test rolls turned out good and from then on &#8230; I knew Diana was here to stay!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/diana-n-xp2-oct-08\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I do own two versions of the old Diana, one with bulb mode and the other doesn&#8217;t. One thing they both share, is the lousy old plastic lens that creates fuzzy, soft and lousy photos that I truly love.<\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8230; don&#8217;t come in here expecting me to write hair-raising stories about how I met my wife and stuffs like that. It&#8217;s not about her. It&#8217;s about the other woman in my life &#8230; Diana. Yeah, the &#8216;original&#8217; old Diana camera, and not the Diana+ series that Lomography later &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=268\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}